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Nyanza mourns Jaramogi's speech writer

Nyanza,Kenya: The former speech writer and press secretary to the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Barrack Odinge Odera is dead. The late Odera, 82, died on Monday after a long illness at Nairobi West hospital where he had been hospitalised.

The late Odera is well known to the Jaramogi family, following his closeness with the late Jaramogi during the turbulent times of political re-alignments in the country. He studied Journalism and Government at the University of South Dakota in The United States of America, thereby becoming Jaramogi's right hand man in matters to do with leadership and governance.

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